When legitimately constituted state authority stands down in the face of armed threats, the very foundation of the republic is in danger.

In American religious history, theological qualms tend to get pushed aside when politics intervenes.

It takes two things to make a political lie work: a powerful person or institution willing to utter it, and another set of powerful institutions to amplify it.

I cant summarize my favorite movie, Jacques Tatis Play Time. You just have to see it.

In politics, if you're explaining, you're loosing.

Ive summarized dozens of books in my literary career; its become rather second nature.

In Ronald Reagans case, he always bore with him this extraordinary ability to radiate confidence, optimism, clarity, a blitheness of spirit, in what other people saw as chaos. And after the 1970s, that was catnip.